![]() ![]() Thus the Gatling gun, the ultimate weapon of the 1800s, was patented on November 4, 1862. He studied the principles of projectiles, or bullets, and came up with a plan for rear-loading gun barrels fed by a strip of cartridges and fired in rapid succession. From his agricultural background, Gatling applied the theory of putting bullets, like seeds, into a machine over and over, at regular times. This thinking led to the North Carolina native’s idea of building a weapon so destructive, it would prevent wars. The horrors of the casualties of war so upset one man living there, Richard Jordan Gatling, that-he later wrote in a letter-he felt there must be a way to make war so inhuman (or savage), no one would let it happen again. ![]() ![]() Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of HistoryĪfter the Civil War broke out in 1861, trains carrying hundreds of wounded Union soldiers began arriving in Indianapolis, Indiana. Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. ![]()
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